The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-01
From the Ne,g York Times.

Duke.
From the Ne,g York Times
VIENNA, Oct. 4.-Some four months ago
II was announced that Col. dc Nillaume, the
military attachc OF the German Embassy
at St. Petersburg, had, in accordance with
instructions received from Berlin, COM
menced an action for criminal libel against
the NNroc TremYd. The great Russian
newspaper had boldly asserted that the
Colonel was at the head OF the German spy
organization in Russia, and after referring
at length to the talents which he had dis
pIayed in that particular direction during
his residence in Paris as military ottdche
of Kaiser Williams embassy there, went ON
TO warn its countrymen to avoid having any
dealings with so questionable character
Immediately the lawsuit was commenced
the NOUOe PTemgd dispatched one OF the
abest men of its editorial staff, NJ. Sa-
g0ulalew, to Paris TO collect material for
the defense, and, of course, the French
government were only too pleased to place
at his disposal the immense quantity of evil
dence which they possess on the subject.
The information thus obtained was of SO
complete a nature that Prince Bismarck,
realizing the fact that its publication in the
course of the trial would seriously compro
mise the German government, has issued
instructions to Col de Villaume to with
draw from the prosecution and to let the
whole matter drop. Although the Russians
are considerably disappointed in being thus
deprived of the many piquant revelations
which were expected in the course of the
proceedings, yet, ON the other hand both
the press and the public feel exceedingly
exultant at having 'cornered" Prince Bis
marck
Russia's SPY organization in foreign coun-
tries, concerning which so many romanCeS
have been written, is far less effective than
is generally supposed. 1t is divided into
two sections, one of which is devoted to in
ternational questions and to foreign affairs,
while the other, and far more important, is
Entrusted with the surveillance of the Cars
own subjects abroad.
The agents belonging to the former of
these two departments are frequently well
known, and i'll some cases make no secret of
their relations to the Imperial Chancellerie
at st. Petersburg. Among the best known
of these is undoubtedly Nine. de Novikoff,
a lady who, without good looks or much
social standing. was clever enough to in
gratiato he, sell to such an extent with sew
eral of the leading statesmen and principal
newspaper editors i'll London that the whole
course of Great BT'itain's policy abroad was
affected thereby at certain critical moments.
Her intimacy with Sir Charles Dixie, Mr..
Chamberlain and Nh Gladstone is matter
of public report, while her penetrating
knowledge of their character is shown by
the fact that several years ago she predicted
the fall of the unfortunate Chelsea Baro-
net asserting that his methods as man
of pleasure took him far beyond the OBJ
servations of Gortchakoff and would even
tually ruin his career in so strait-laced a
country as England" Her latest exploit. as
far as Great Britain is concerned, has been
the detection of Dhuleep Singh from his
English allegiance and his migration to
Russia, whence it is quite possible that he
may become a considerable source of I'M
easinesS to the British authorities in Cal
cutta.
On the Continent the work of the Cars
agents is attend d with far less difficulty.
There are but feY foreigners who ara i'm
pervious to til 'Htactlons OF a ''bit of rib
bon," and it would &C, taiu'y aft rrd instruc
tive reading if list were compiled of the
Russian decorations which have been dis
tributed during the past ten years at the
French Prefecture de Police alone. Of all
the numerous projects who have succeeded
one another at the Rue Jerusalem during
that time, not one has escaped the inevitable
Grand Gordon Russo and it must be
borne in mind that every one of these bau-
bles is bestowed as an acknowledgment of
some more OF less allowable service rendered
to the donors. Who al Paris does not know
the agreeable and plausible Marquis-who,
since the departure of Princess LiSe Trou-
betsioi, has been the correspondent in the
French metropolis of the Imperial Chancel-
lerie. Married to charn'i G woman whose
first husband held high rank i'll the Russian
civil service, he occupies a most delightful
house in one of the streets leading off the
Champs Elvsees His establishment is rich
and luxurious, Notwithstanding the fact
that neither he nor his wife have am pri-
vate fortune of their own, and his salons
are thronged with French functionaries of
every rank and importance. Few are aware
of his origin or to what nationality he in
reality belongs. That is a secret which he
has successfully concealed hitherto from the
vulgar public under the disguise of an ltal
ian title purchased some years ago at Rome.
1t is asserted that his reports are admirable
narratives Of the passing events of Europe,
with mature and profound calculations
upon their bearings on one another. Every
French statesman or official of any import
ance is dissected for the benefit of the I'm
perial Chancellerie with an exactitude which
would be rather startling to the objects of
his notes. 1t may be of interest to add that
his stepson occupies post i'll the Cars
household, but is not on speaking terms
with his parents.
The agents of the Imperial Chancellerie
at Brussels in the person of Nine de NJ, at
Dresden in that of the Countess 3 in Swift
erland in the person of Prince A. T., and at
Rome in that of the Marquise di P, are less
well known to the public at large than Nine.
de Novikow OF the polyglot Marquis at
Paris. Even little Egypt is not disdajned
by the Cars government, and through the
Countess J nee Princess g. the Russian
wife of an Italian adyenturer and sole lady
in-waiting of the Vice Queen, the Imperial
Chancellere obtains an early report of
every fresh State secret which the British
government consider it necessary to COM
municate to the Khedive
For many years Mime. Blavatsky, the high
priestess OF theosophy, acted as secret agent
of the Russian government in India, and
under the guise OF Buddhism carried on an
extensive Russian propaganda among the
native rajahs and feudatory Princes. Her
principal correspondents IN Russia were NJ
Zinovieff, the chief of the Asiatic Depart
ment of the Foreign Office, and Prince
Dondaroff Korsakoff, Governor General Of
the Caucasus Lord Dufferin, however,
soon had his attention drawn toward her
proceedings, aud measures were speedily
adopted to check her political activity.
As for Berlin and this city, so many of
the Austrian and German government 9th
cials of every rank have married Russian
wives that the Imperial Chancellerie at st.
Petersburg is always furnished with intelh-